Rose Milles (née Gardiner)

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1757 - 1835

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Rose Milles was the claimant for the enslaved people on the Georgia estate in St Thomas-in-the-East, for which she was shown as the owner from 1811 to 1833, but died before the award was made (in her name). The compensation was paid to her son-in-law Rowland Alston and grandson Rowland Gardiner Alston. She was the daughter and sole heir of Edward Gardiner of Pishiobury (q.v), under whose trust will she inherited both Pishiobury and an unnamed estate in Jamaica, together with the enslaved people upon it: Edward Gardiner in turn appears to have been the heir of his maternal uncle, a Kingston merchant called Edward Prattle under the latter's will dated 1735.

Rose Gardiner of Sawbridge in Hertfordshire married Jeremiah Milles in Marylebone, 08/06/1780. Will of Rose Milles widow of Pishiobury Herts. proved 18/06/1835. She left her property to her two (unmarried) daughters Harriet and Sophia.

Sources

Will of Edward Gardiner of Pishobury [sic] Hertfordshire proved 26/02/1779; PROB 11/1050/270; "A href="http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/wills-31.htm">http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/wills-31.htm accessed 21/01/2016 - the link between the Edward Gardiner of Edward Prattle's will and Edward Gardiner of Pishiobury is made by C 11/348/31 Gardiner v Harpur, http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C10442202" [accessed 21/01/2016].

Physical (2)

Landscaping attributed by Pevsner to Capability Brown for 'Mr Mills' at Pishiobury Hertfordshire. The house had in fact belonged to Jeremiah Milles III's wife Rose Milles nee Gardiner, who inherited...